BOOKS OF THE TIMES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930079-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: March 12, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK TIMES MAR 12 1963
(Western Edition)
Approved For Release 2000/08/27
STATINTL
By {TOM WICKER
( 4c' al to The;$eW York, inc.
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If there is one of its public frgu' that
the knowing town of Washington never ha s
quite understood, pigeonholed or put-its fin-
ger on, that man' is the languid and eloquent
junior Senator from Arkansas, JaiMes Wility1
Fulbright. He is the chairman, of theSea'ie"
Foreign Relations Committee, a rant pg flb
ure in the limited_ intellectual hierapchy' of.
Capitol Hill, and the subject of his rathor
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unusual new book--a collection of.his papers
and speeches during twenty years in Con-
gress under the file "Fulbright of Arkansas."
Barry Truman once called hint "that over-
educated Oxford S.O.B. (influenced, no
doubt, by Fuibright's having naively sugges-
ted that he resign as President`, when the
Republicans won control of the Congress in
1946). Joe McCarthy liked-to call him "Half
bright." He has been condemned as one who'
supports Arabs instead of Israelis, slugged
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in Washington to enter a really forceful dis- Pres3 'ent'lcennc y warning against the Cuban
sent before President Kennedy embarked on ., invaaapn, the 'equally famous memo that set
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That makes Fulbright sound like a fear- ,
lessly embattled rebel, a sort of constitutional _ politics, eveft his h u?morous. lament for the
gadfly. In fact he is a mild-mannered fellow, ' passing of the old S '-subway cars.
not at all given to controversy for? contro- What do these dog 's disclose, as one
versy's sake, usually standing som `hat aloof 'studies thq in lei~t loquenee, surely,
from the current scene, and with of the
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reformer's zeal in his makeup. and a er t mitks their author
7_ in a Senate tlla lore ago lost most of its
`A Genuine- Conservatelaim_.to distinguis bate or even oratory.
In a foreword to this new book of Sen- Co r certainly - as exemplified by the
ator Fulbright's papers, Walter Lippmanri
calls him as genuine a `conservative in the Seiiator's,remaks in the dan Brous McCarthy
great tradition of conservatism as exists in e>;a; although Meyer passes rather 1ightly`1:
that "great tradition" in this way:
"The true conservatives, of whom the
Tenn ctmi -.;alai Ten :ta--ns -.s &'ctvt -skLiil.,..gn't.
Ably if admiringly edited by Karl E. Meyer,
an editorial writer on The Washington Post,
it presents the most notable Fulbright docu-
ments from his two decades in Congress -
his reply to the acid Clare Boothe Luce in
his maiden speech in the House, his call for
Mr. Truman's resignation (he suggested Mr.
Eisenhower resign, too, when the 1~tter lost
control of Congress in 1954), some of his
assaults on McCarthy, his prescient calls for
FULBRIGHT OF ARKANSAS. The Public Posi-
tions of a Private Thinker. Edited by Karl E.
Meyer, with a foreword of Walter Lippmann.
276 pp. Washington: Robert B. Luce, Inc. $5.50.
over Fulbright',g_ iieluetaTice to speak out on
racial affairs in the South.
Wisdom, wit, foresight, understanding-all
the ana ysisis so arzff-inE"rr=
tire relationship of President and Congress.
Unfortunately, it is a minority view in a Con-
gress that still seeks at. every chance to im-
pose its primacy on the President, rather than
to do its fair and responsible share to help
The result is that Congress is fast failing
to perform any constructive part in 20th cen-
tury government.
Senator Fulbright's views on foreign pol-
icy and other affairs, as presented in this un-
critical book, are admirable. One wonders,
however, if it is not rather his thoughtful
conception of the legisjator's role and his
i Mr. Wicker is n staff member of The New performance in it that will be counted his
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